Direct Imaging Post-Processing Research Update

We have been working on using Common Spatial Pattern filtering in a novel method to detect exoplanets from direct imaging. Using just time-series data, CSP filtering can identify a known exoplanet, Beta Pictorus b (in image below). Right now, work is being done to implement spectral characteristics from the observations into the data reduction process as well. Similarly, we are preparing to run large-scale statistical analysis across hundreds of observations. This will serve to compare to the current method, Principal Component Analysis. Hopefully we can identify situations in which CSP outperforms PCA in planetary detection.